Saturday, March 26, 2011

The Book Deal May Be Dead, But Google Is Still Right: Tech News and Analysis « [GigaOM]

Check the article link below, and the comment thread therein, for a lively debate

The Google book settlement — which the search giant signed with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers in 2008, after a dispute over the company’s scanning of books — was struck down by a judge this week as too far-reaching, which is arguably true (although Google would undoubtedly disagree). But the fact that the arrangement has been rejected might not be such a bad thing, because it puts the spotlight back where it should be: on the fact that Google is doing nothing wrong — legally or morally — in scanning books without the permission of the authors or the publishers of those books.